He answers to the National Council on Privatisation headed by Vice-President Atiku Abubakar...
He and Vice-President Atiku Abubakar have spelled out the new doctrine to graduating officers at the National War College: supremacy of elected officials of state over appointed officers at all levels; acceptance of civilian leadership of the Defence Ministry and other strategic institutions; goals and conduct of military operations subject to civilian oversight; the right of the (civil) Supreme Court to review any decision taken by military judicial officers...
Economic policy is steered by on one hand Chief Philip Asiodu former Petroleum Minister and now Chief Economics Advisor to the President and by Vice-President Atiku Abubakar on the other...
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Contract terms: to arrange meetings for Vice-President Atiku Abubakar during his visit to IMF and World Bank...
Now the National Assembly can assert itself: it has already cried foul about the proposed sale of the state equity in the African Petroleum distribution company to Chief Okocha's Sadiq Petroleum: the government rejected Okocha's bid because it was too low but Assembly members didn't like it because of his purported friendship with Vice-President Atiku Abubakar...
Vice-President Atiku Abubakar led negotiations with the governors and persuaded them to back down - at least for now...
The proposal for a regional state of emergency was made not by Obasanjo but by Vice-President Atiku Abubakar a northerner closely allied to ex-General Aliyu Mohammed Gusau the National Security Advisor...
It seems at first that Obasanjo was neutral though his Vice-President Atiku Abubakar favoured Okadigbo...
At the FT conference Vice-President-elect Atiku Abubakar said the incoming administration was not in a position to prevent such activities but pledged a review once the new government was in place...
As a south-westerner himself with his running mate Atiku Abubakar from the north-eastern Adamawa State the gaps are obvious: key roles must be found for candidates from Igboland in the south-east from the emirates of the north-west from the powerful and vocal Middle-belt of the country and from the oil-producing Niger Delta the so-called ‘South-South’...